BRITISH 1970 Orig SPOOKY TOOTH CEREMONY = MIND FRYING HEAVY PSYCH PROG TRIPPER
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$ 41
Sold For
Oct 8, 2023
Sold Date
Oct 1, 2023
Start Date
8
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USA
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- 1970 BRITISH "PINK EYE" ISLAND
- GATEFOLD COVER
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1970 FLIPPED-OUT ACID ROCK/PROG...WILD... FUZZED & EFFECTS CLASSIC
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- "Made In England" - (Pink) ISLAND -9107
1970 BRITISH (PINK ISLAND) first press in GATEFOLD cover.
A flipped-out concept epic ::: get ready for a psychedelic hammered hell ride
.........................................................................................................- The 1969 THIRD Spooky Tooth album is one of the most intense trips of its kind ~ a way out hallucinogenic mind adventure... drenched in freaky sound effects...dropping acid to this LP would ensure the listener of never coming back...
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Quite possibly the weirdest entry in the list of Catholic-Mass-as-psych-prog albums. This is a brainchild of the great SPOOKY TOOTH in their prime with french composer Pierre Henry, the XXth century classical/avantgarde artist, known for his experimental electronic music and musique concrete works. He enlisted a heavy British blues-rock band Spooky Tooth as studio musicians. The end product sounds kinda like Hawkwind with Stockhausen instead of Dik Mik manning the electronics. The resulting LP was marketed as a Spooky Tooth album, a flipped-out one indeed ~ trip to the center head flooded by powerful raining sound effects, meaty acid guitar ravings and shrieking pleading vocals that'll warm your soul...a mind melting masterpiece indeed!
"Ceremony" begins with an Arthur Brown & Kingdom Come style organ found on their Galactic Zoo Lp, wailing as Mike Harrison begs for mercy from a vengeful deity that has its cosmic plaform boot planted firmly on the singer's windpipe ~~ the guitars run wild alongside the kind of extraneous avant-Prog noises that even Roky Erikson and Arthur Brown would have arched an eyebrow at.
As the brutal guitars reach a climax of melodically challenged soloing the track cuts short and the record switches into another "Child In Time" styled God bothering freak-out which stalls not once but twice for interludes of a-melodic gulping, treated speaker hum and showering down upon of bent sound effects. Harrison then dissolves into a puddle of admirably rhythmic gibbering idiocy while he duets with himself on the theme of universal harmony and Luther once again finds that his top string will bend a long long way in the service of Jesus the Hippie King. Bassist Greg Ridley and drummer Mike Kellie wisely find a riff and stick to it. A riff so gloriously heavy that Black Sabbath would have stolen the whole thing if they hadn't been tripping so madly!
- It's the most demented recording you'll have heard since "666" or Magma's "MDK".
The record continues in this broad vein through 45 minutes of addled pomposity though to their credit the band manage to puncture their own Prog balloon at every stage with some performances of epic nuttiness. By track five they are in full-on Elevators territory but an Elevators built on "Sweet Leaf" as its template rather than "Out Of Our Heads".
- Fans of Agitation Free and Cosmic Couriers will love this!
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Have Mercy -
Jubilation
Confession
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Prayer -
Offering -
Hosanna CONDITION: - The cover: rated: VG+ fragile all black matte GATEFOLD cover is extremely wear-prone especially from 53 years past...This is actually a decent keeper copy - just not M- and downgraded because of light wear around edges, small sticker-pull at top right front gatefold.
- There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing, only light prior use
- The vinyl: Rated: "EX" (excellent) only minor top surface scuffs by brightest sunlight only when the deep groove pressing plays fantastic with vibrant clean audio... both U.K. ISLAND labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M Completely clean, no marks, plays clean
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EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean VG++ Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, enjoyable
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